Lim Khim Wah and Goh Wei Shem confident for Men’s Doubles gold medal in SEA Games – Badminton news
Malaysia’s Men’s Doubles shuttlers, Lim Khim Wah and Goh Wei Shem are confident to perform well and win the gold medal in the upcoming SEA Games, starting from November 12, in Indonesia.
Khim Wah was a part of the national squad in the last edition of the SEA Games in Laos but found no chance to play in any match as he was in the grooming phase at that time. But now he has developed into a competent shuttler and is determined to win the
gold with the partnership of Wei Shem.
The World Number 27, Khim Wah and Wei Shem are expected to put up strong show and earn glory at the tournament, especially when the top seeds in Malaysia and World Number Five, Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong giving the event a miss.
Winning the gold medal is a tough and challenging task as the mighty Indonesians will be there to stop their way. However, the 22-year-old Khim Wah is confident to earn glory in Indonesia.
For the last seven months, Khim Wah and Wei Shem have been playing good badminton and in every tournament, they remained successful in beating higher ranked shuttlers.
In the Japan Open Super Series, the Malaysian Duo defeated China’s Guo Zhengdong and Chai Biao, who are currently ranked at the 7th position in the Women’s Doubles world standings.
They also defeated Japan’s World Number 12 pair of Shoji Sato and Naoki Kawamae and World Number 15 Kwon Yi Goo and Cho Gun Woo of Korea. Now, Khim Wah is setting a bigger target and is confident to achieve it.
He said, “I was in the Laos SEA Games team in 2009, but as a reserve. I didn’t get to play at all. This time, I will be going as the top ranked pair.”
He further added, “Wei Shem and I have come far in a short time. We were quite down when we lost to Anthony Clark-Chris Langridge of England in the qualifying tournament of the Denmark Open. Then, a week later, we beat them. This is a positive result for
us.”
Khim Wah and Wei Shem are ready to take the challenge in the event, which is set to begin from the next week, at Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia.
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